In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.
— Mitt Romney
The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.
There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.
I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?
A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.
I'm married to a girl from Wales.
I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.
I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.
There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for everybody, as - the very, very wealthy. But recognize that means that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would pay no income tax at all. And some people say, 'Well, that's a good thing for growth of the economy.'
I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.
The right course is for the Palestinians and the Israelis to sit down at the table together. The Palestinians need to recognize that the course to the two-state solution is not through the United Nations or through the United States or through anyone else, but through a face to face series of negotiations with the Israelis.
Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.
My whole life has been learning to lead, from my parents, to my education, to the experience I had in the private sector, to helping run the Olympics, and then of course helping guide a state.
American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Of course, we recognize that Egypt has gone through a dramatic change in government. And what their status will be going forward in terms of the relationship with our nation is something which which I'm sure will be developing over time.
When I become president, it will be about helping the 100 percent.
I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win, all right? They're not going to listen, and I don't have the credibility to do that anyway.
The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.
People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.
Humanity is not common in its views.
I would always be happy to serve my country in any way that I was called upon to do.
It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.
I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.
Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.
Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles.
The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.
I think it suffices to say that Israel has the right to defend itself.
I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'
I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.
I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.
When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that to get anything done, I couldn't be attacking them. I had to find ways to reach out to them.
I don't look back. I look forward.
I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.
The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'
I can tell you, Obamacare, I have been stunned by the pratfalls associated with its implementation. I simply can't understand how a president that had such an effective technology campaign and has such support among the technology community members could have put in place the implementation of Obamacare as ineffectively as he did.
For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.
People have a right to be able to bear arms.
I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.
I'd like Americans to save their money, and not get taxed on their savings.
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.
Ah, it's too hard to pick a favorite president. It really is. It's like picking your favorite from a box of chocolates - I love all of them.
You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day.
I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.
I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere.
My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.
We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.
It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.
I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have.
